Lingua::RU::Charset - Perl extension for detecting and converting various russian character sets: KOI8-r, Windows-1251, CP866, ISO-8859-5, X-Mac-Cyrillic, russian text in english letters, russian part of Unicode and UTF-8. This module can be especially useful for computers with broken cyrillic locales (like foreign web hosts). This module does not use locale or unicode and is written in pure Perl, so it will probably work at any computer. You can install this module as usual: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install For some strange reason the installation into local directories with "perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/path/to/some/dir" does not work. If you know the reason - please drop me a mail at alex@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (Till it's fixed, you can still copy the Charset.pm manually into Lingua/RU/ ).